life_wo_fanlib | Henry Jenkins and Chris Williams Interview

Thank you. Unfortunately, nothing has changed. Chris Williams is saying what he's been saying from the beginning: give me your fanfiction so I can use it to attract visitors to my website and sell them stuff. You get nothing. I get everything. Have a nice day!

Oddly, it was this interview that spurred me to delete the two short stories I uploaded to FanLib. In my particular neck of the fandom world, some fic writers who I respect very much are affliated with FanLib and while I wish them the best of luck, I'm no longer currently comfortable with hosting fic there, if things change in the future, I dunno....we'll see.

Let me tell you, Interwebz, that is some zero traffic kinda place. I think I get more views on my RPG...in the posts where I simply make a laundry list of the posts I owe for the day (Forum based play by post)...and that's not hyperbole. I get more views in ten minutes on FFN than I did in four days on FanLib. There are people there who have fic posted in very popular fandoms like Heroes, and have earned maybe seven views or less in a month. Which seemed odd to me, especially considering how much recent publicity FanLib has received lately.

Ah well.

This bit:

I do think your question is a bit unfair, but I'll answer anyway. I am here because you hold dual citizenship in fandom and academia, you maintain credibility and integrity in both worlds, and you told me I you would get a fair hearing and you would share the unedited results of our interview in its entirety with those interested in the matter. Meanwhile, we've been listening to the many comments we've received from the community and taking action. For proof check out our new TOS and FAQ on our website.

We intend to continue the conversation with the fan fiction community through our developing fan advisory board and, as time permits, by responding to other inquiries, comments and requests that we receive from interested individuals - obviously, regardless of gender.

was really all I needed.

I'm so glad he's disregarding gender. Just watch him. He's disregarding gender so hard drops of blood are bursting from his forehead.

most people, when thinking of other people don't think of them as exclusively "O+" or "<-o",

You're telling me that fanlib's business men are dangerous BECAUSE they're men?

They'more a bunch of incompetents that evil male chauvinist in my opinion.

It's the assumption that all men are inherently evil towards women,

"To be honest, it's not that it's being made, but how it's being made that has bothered me and prompted me to comment above."

But nobody (that I have seen) has said ANY of those things. Nobody's used the word "male chauvinist" but you. Nobody's said men are evil. Nobody's said "I only see people as members of a gender, not as writers."

Nobody has made the arguments that you are happily refuting. Apparently you would rather argue with an imaginary feminist than argue with the real people who are here, saying quite different things.

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